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Sedona

(3,769 posts)
1. If I'm hanging with older family members or get to the Naaatheast
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 11:14 PM
Apr 2013

my accent comes back. It can't be helped.

KaryninMiami

(3,073 posts)
2. Happens to me too- my "new yawker" twang sneaks back in sometimes
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 11:19 PM
Apr 2013

especially after a few drinks or after being up there or with family for long periods- and I have not lived on "Long Guy-land" since the 70's and worked hard to rid myself of that accent- it slips back in however from time to time. It just happens.

Isoldeblue

(1,135 posts)
5. I'll have some caw-fee with my danish...
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 11:53 PM
Apr 2013

Philly girl here, lapses into the old ways, despite having been gone from there for 40 years. It's a natural thing.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
6. You engage in NO phatic communication to say, in effect, "You & I share something" to ANY others???
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:26 AM
Apr 2013

My guess is that you do.

chillfactor

(7,566 posts)
7. I am a transplant from Minnesota....
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:49 AM
Apr 2013

now retired for 8 years in New Mexico.....people here still hear the Minnesota accent in my speech..

apparently you have lived in one place your entire life.....or you would know how accents carry from one part of the country to another...when I go back to visit in Minnesota they hear the New Mexico accent in my voice...when i return to New Mexico people say to me..we can tell you have been in Minnesota again...

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